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Julia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since.

  The New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.

  Please visit her on the web at www.juliaquinn.com.

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  Avon Books by

  Julia Quinn

  TO SIR PHILLIP, WITH LOVE

  ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON

  AN OFFER FROM A GENTLEMAN

  THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

  THE DUKE AND I

  HOW TO MARRY A MARQUIS

  TO CATCH AN HEIRESS

  BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN

  EVERYTHING AND THE MOON

  MINX

  DANCING AT MIDNIGHT

  SPLENDID

  And the Anthologies

  THE FURTHER OBSERVATIONS OF LADY WHISTLEDOWN

  (with Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins and Mia Ryan)

  WHERE’S MY HERO?

  (with Lisa Kleypas and Kinley MacGregor)

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  SPLENDID. Copyright © 1995 by Julie Cotler. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub © Edition AUGUST 2004 ISBN: 9780061752681

  First Avon Books paperback printing: May 1995

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